MicroView

MicroView is an open-source CAD application developed specifically for helping you analyze and visualize image data in a 2D/3D environment. It is available for download on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms. The tool works with various file formats, such as VFF, L3D, CDM, HDR, NFO, TIFF, VTK, GE, JPG, BMP, PNM, TD, and SPR, and reads 8-, 16-, or 32-bit files.

You are welcomed by a well-organized suite of features. Images can be imported using the built-in browse button or drag-and-drop support. You can also appeal to a help manual in case you need extra assistance with the configuration process.

There are several utilities which can be used to gain control over the data viewing process. You are allowed to zoom in or out of the current photo, rotate it to different angles in a 3D workspace, move objects to a certain position in the working environment, enable a sub-volume viewing mode, merge two volumes, as well as darken certain areas.

What’s more, you can make the program show or hide intersection lines, plane borders, gray background, label of axes, axial plane, coronal plane, sagittal plane, and volume outline. Plus, you can highlight labels and use image interpolation.

MicroView gives you the possibility to generate, view, and save isosurfaces, enable an opacity-based volume rendering mode or surface rendering, opt for multiple-slice or single-plane viewing display, and enable an arbitrary oblique slicing.

Image statistics can be generated in order to get details about the mean and standard deviation, quantitative bone measurements, bone mineral density (BMD), and bone volume fraction (BVF).

You can make use of stereological parameters, like isotropy, trabecular number, spacing, thickness, and connectivity by Euler’s number. MicroView offers support for histogram and profile line plotting, line measurement, fixed and variable slice increment, volume reorientation and re-alignment, and exporting mode of measurement data to formatted text so you can import it in spreadsheets and data analysis programs.

The application lets you enhance its functionality with the aid of plugins, invert images, apply Gaussian smooth effects, flip photos to different angles, view image information (e.g. title, subject, date, bone value, voxel size, dimension, channels), as well as carry out DICOM image transfers by setting up the hostname, port number, and AE title.

Tests have pointed out that MicroView processes data quickly and reveals very good output results. It eats up a moderate amount of CPU and memory resources.

To sum things up, MicroView proves to be a useful 2D/3D image viewer and analysis application that comes packed with several powerful tools waiting to be discovered.